Finding Home (2012)
“Casie said, then calmed her voice and cleared her throat as she took the cardboard box from Emily’s hands. They’d been cleaning her parents’ bedroom since shortly after the Jaegars’ departure. “I’ll take that.”
“What is it?”
“Dad’s important papers.”
“Like bank statements and stuff.”
“Yeah, that sort of thing.” That and doodled grocery lists and scraps of notes that Kathy had left behind and Clayton had subsequently hidden away, demanding that no one touch them. “Are you feeling any better?”
“Yeah. Sorry about this morning.”
“Well, you should be . . . tossing your cookies just because I’m dragging a dead cow around by its hind leg,” Casie said and shivered with grim exaggeration.
“I should have helped you.”
“You’re kidding, right?” Casie said and flipped the sheets off the queen-sized bed. “Dead cow dragging is strictly a one-woman job.” She glanced toward Emily. “Have you always had such severe periods?”
“Well . . .” She was piling stacks of miscellaneous papers into another box.
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